um, the question is above… I'm making a new game but i don't know how to make the screen move along with the player while player moves. I need the script.
Huge thanks for anyone who's willing to help me
Jill118

So you're talking about scrolling - the screen is just a window onto the world of the game. So what you can see depends on the position of the window. The wiki includes pages on scrolling and these demos may help.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/304642094
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/92682141

There are a few ways to do it. This is the simplest one, but it's not good at dealing with offscreen sprites, so you will likely have to make the map wrap around.

Create 2 variables: ‘Scroll X’ and ‘Scroll Y’.
Move the player like you would normally. The next part depends on whether you want the camera to be locked onto your player or to slide toward the player.

Use this method if you want the camera to be locked onto the player.

change [Scroll X v] by ((0) - (x position))
change [Scroll Y v] by ((0) - (y position))
go to x: (0) y: (0)

Use this method if you want the camera to slide toward the player smoothly.

change [Scroll X v] by (((0) - (x position)) * (0.1)) // increase '0.1' to increase the camera speed
change [Scroll Y v] by (((0) - (y position)) * (0.1))
change x by (Scroll X)
change y by (Scroll Y)

Now, you need to move the other things on the scene. Make sure that the other sprites that will be scrolling are in a layer behind the player and put this code into them:

when green flag clicked
forever
change x by (Scroll X)
change y by (Scroll Y)

thanks both of you! all very useful

is there a camera object? or do I put the script on the player object?

WLATMAN wrote:

is there a camera object? or do I put the script on the player object?

Please don't necropost; that is, post on old topics. Be sure to check the date of the first and most recent post in a topic. This one happens to be about 2 years old, so please create your own.

That being said, those scripts would probably be put into the level sprite (the sprite that represents your ground/platforms, whatever the player walks on). However, I'm not sure, as I would've approached the situation a bit differently.

Can you put in a collision detection script with the camera scrolling

ma461273 wrote:

Can you put in a collision detection script with the camera scrolling

yes but please stop necroposting/thread hijackinmg and make a new topic